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Penguin Chat in South Melbourne

admin — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 21:27:47 +0000

The Penguin Symposium will be happening in South Melbourne Community Hall this Sunday. No actual penguins will be coming, but lots of people will be talking about them. I’ll be doing a little presentation on penguins in cartoons.

Part of a Midge Bristol cartoon on Little Penguins

The first presentation starts from 11 am and the symposium will finish at 3 pm. Lunch and afternoon tea will be provided (so please RSVP to earthcarestkilda@gmail.com).

South Melbourne Community Hall is on the corner of Park St and Ferrars Place. There is ample free parking and trams number 1, 12 and 96 are nearby.

Hope to see you if you are in the area!

Another Artist Mixing Penguins and Polar Bears

admin — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 01:13:32 +0000

If I could start over again, I wouldn’t have penguins migrate to the Arctic in my strip – it is something I have to explain a lot – penguins should not be hanging out with polar bears (or speaking, for that mattter…). But I’m not the only one doing it and I was enchanted to receive this image in the mail from fellow artist and perpetrator, Erik Brooks :

Polar Opposites by Erik Brooks

I’ll have to find out how his penguin and polar bear got to be together! Erik?

Oscar in Antarctica Series

admin — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:30:46 +0000

This is the series that ran recently. It was fun to write and had a great response.

Oscar the penguin is homesick for Antarctica

carbon offsetting the flight

I wrote this after reading about a real solar-powered blimp

The boyf and I are waiting to watch series 5 of The Wire, which has yet to be released in Australia. He makes me watch with the English subtitles on AND he's American!

the blimp pops

Oscar the penguin takes the greyhound bus

on a research ship bound for the Antarctic

Oscar's mother is not very maternal

his old crush - Gwen

this bullying penguin is named after my editor...who is a sweetie really

Ed gives advice from the Arctic

an Antarctic duel

global warming emergency escape plan

a Hollywood ending in Antarctica

I used to like the toys inside the Kinder Surprise eggs a lot more than the chocolate itself

neglect of parenting duties

sometimes running away is the only way...in the short term

Oscar returns to the Arctic